permission to use these recordings of Beethoven's 9th Symphony for a Non-profit video project
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- Huw Frank
- 3 months, 4 days ago
Hello,
I was wishing to enquire about the permission to use any of these recordings of Beethoven's 9th Symphony for a Non-profit video project:
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 - (all movements) . Presto - Allegro Assai - By European Archive
Beethoven - Symphony No.9 in D minor Op.125 - (all movements) - By Skidmore College Orchestra
Beethoven - Symphony No.9 in D minor Op.125 - (all movements) - by Papalin
There appear to be two versions of the full Symphony credited as: By European Archive
Specifically I am editing a video showcasing the recent first ever "Sign on Screen" Film festival held in Canberra Australia which was a 3 day festival showcasing short films by Deaf and Hard of Hearing actors, directors and other talent in particular showing films which Sign Language is the main language used in the films.
I am an unpaid volunteer and I attended and filmed the event including filming the crowds, some lectures that were given by academics and Deaf artists, and the screenings of the various short films, as well as some vox pops from Deaf and hearing individuals who attended or spoke at the event (some in English and some in Sign Language).
Dr Gemma King, is the woman who created the free Sign on Screen Festival event as part of a research and preservation project of film and tv and other forms of motion picture content both public and private (home videos home movies etc also were sought after) featuring Deaf and Hard of Hearing people communicating in Sign Language, particularly Australian Origin Sign Language like Auslan, Signed English and Fist-nations / Indigenous people's Sign Languages.
I had volunteered to film the event ie the long-form lectures that were given over the three days by various presenters, and also to create a short wrap-up video of the event approximately 2 to 3 mins long (or less) celebrating the success of the film festival to be sent out to the various participants and audiences who came along to it and eventually to be uploaded to youtube or vimeo or a similar video hosting site.
Most important is that in the next few days I am tasked with producing a shorter video (likely under 2 mins) mainly featuring Dr Gemma King explaining the Sign on Screen research / preservation project and the recent film festival event and showing some footage of the film festival itself and the people who attended and stating her hopes for the future continuation of the project to gather and catalog any and all video/film/tv media including homemade content donated by people in the Deaf community showcasing Sign Language being used on screen by Australians. This short video is to be submitted to support a nomination for a community service type award which will hopefully fully lead to further support for the project and possibly to the holding of another Sign on Screen Film Festival sometime in the future.
My understanding is that this short explainer video is not to be for public exhibition but rather just to support Sign on Screen Projects entry into the community service award and likely to be viewed only by those judging the awards in private.
My question is may I use parts of any or all of those verisions listed above of Beethoven's 9th Symphony for:
1) The short award entry explainer video (not for public exhibition)
and/or
2) The Longer event wrap-up video eventually to be uploaded to youtube or another video hosting site online
And what would be required from me in terms of properly crediting the music recordings used on the video/s produced?
To be clear this is part of an entirely non-profit festival and research event which was supported by but not necessarily funded by Deaf advocacy networks like Deaf-Connect and Expression Australia which are also registered non-profit community organisations here in Australia. Dr Gemma King works as a language lecturer at the Australian National University where she is doing some of the research for this project but the film festival was not held at the University but rather at the National Film And Sound Archive Australia and was entirely free of charge to the public.
Wow sorry that was such a long message for you there! I have worked on video content similar to this in the past but always while being paid as a contractor for a University or Non-profit organisation and as-such there was budgets and resources and pre-existing accounts with production music libraries etc which recognised the University's status as an Educational Institution or the Non-profit status of a community advocacy organisation etc and as this project has been done entirely on an unpaid and voluntary basis outside of any University or other organisation I am both stuck without any money but my own to pay for any licences and lacking the formal infrastructure and resources usually available when making videos like this.
Thank you for your time responding to my inquiry and again my apologies for how ridiculously long it was!
Thanks
Huw Frank, Canberra, ACT Australia
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